Venice film festival<\/a> premiere whether her ex-partner was just scared of a civil war or actively trying to stoke one, St Clair said: \u201cWhatever it is, what he\u2019s doing with this platform on X cannot be ignored, because he is stoking flames that don\u2019t exist in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cHe is creating something that is causing real world effects with all of these inputs on X,\u201d said the former Trump supporter, who also said she now regrets her former political activism. \u201cI do believe that he is causing deliberate division that may be catastrophic if it\u2019s not regulated or tamed, or if we don\u2019t do our part in putting it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since acquiring the site formerly known as Twitter in 2022, Musk has used the platform to amplify his personal political views. On Monday, he celebrated the strong result for Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, writing \u201cWell done!\u201d in response to co-leader Alice Weidel\u2019s acclamation of the lead candidate.<\/p>\n
Film-maker Gibney, whose previous subjects include Enron, Vladimir Putin and the US military, said Musk\u2019s preoccupation with civilisational collapse was probably rooted in his childhood in South Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a childhood that was very difficult and traumatic,\u201d Gibney said in Venice. \u201cTo some extent he\u2019s now playing out that trauma on the rest of us, if I were to psychoanalyse the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four-hour documentary, which Gibney filmed over three years, paints a comprehensive portrait of Musk\u2019s rise from software start-up tech bro to engineering entrepreneur selling rockets and electric cars to Maga acolyte.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I discovered was that the story of Musk was not a new tech story,\u201d said Gibney. \u201cBut his story is the story of an old wine in a new bottle. His story turns out to be the story of the confidence man, the stock pumper. His wealth and power comes from inflating stock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is sowing \u201cdeliberate division\u201d via his social media platform X that will be catastrophic unless regulated,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-885036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}